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The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.
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For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.
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The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
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When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
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The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.
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Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.
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I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
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Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
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Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
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It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it
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Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.
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Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?
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The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
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Your problems is that you think you have time.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
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It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us
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